However, in developed countries like the United States, poverty is defined as an individual with income less than $36 per day or a family of four with income less than $72 per day. This is calculated from the poverty threshold as set by the US Census Bureau. The World Health Organization...
War on Poverty, expansive social welfare legislation introduced in the 1960s by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and intended to help end poverty in the United States. It was part of a larger legislative program, the Great Society, that Johnson hoped wou
Until the 1960s, white church people were easy to spot at a civil rights protest in the South, because they were scarce. Standing out among them was William Sloane Coffin, the 30-something Yale chaplain and a former CIA agent. In May 1961, Coffin made front-page news nationwide because h...
Governments often put social welfare programs in place to help lift individuals, families, and communities out of poverty. Some countries have stronger welfare states (social safety nets) than others. For instance, the United States tends to be much more individualistic and has relatively limited we...
In the United States, poverty is often regarded as disproportionately affecting non-white populations. Among the 75 million impov- erished people in Brazil, the majority comprises Afro-Indians, Indians, and pure black people. In Australia, which has been described by sociologists as "an ethnic ...
It was also true for a large swath of white America, especially in the Deep South. It’s hard to believe today, but Mississippi was one of the richest states in the nation before the Civil War. But it was due to the free labor of slaves and, thus, the poverty of slaves didn’t ...
Jewish Veg’s rhetoric of compassion and repairing the world cloaks deep hypocrisy. Vegan birthright advertises a chance to meet “world leaders” in the Jewish vegan community in a “world leading vegan city”, but in reality this narrative is part of an Israeli propaganda strategy to use ...
rural poor, it was their collective refusal to see themselves as victims, their opportunities to own land, rear children, and their fierce will to sacrifice and function well as kinship families and religious communities that propelled exits from rural poverty in Mississippi and the Deep South.doi...
“The hardest thing is that there are no jobs here,” said Veronica Rodriguez, director of the Pacoima Community Youth Culture Center. “That’s what’s keeping them in the streets: They have no jobs. We need (help) before we become another South-Central.”...
To comprehend the America that became a postwar superpower, culturally as well as politically, it is necessary to understand how the United States responded to and emerged from its own singular experiences of the Great Depression in the 1930s....